A kidnapping investigation has ended with a 7-year-old Highland girl safely back with her parents and her 63-year-old grandmother behind bars -- thanks, in part, to a good Samaritan, say San Bernardino County sheriff's officials.

Teresa Arias was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 20, and booked into West Valley Detention Center in Fontana for investigation of kidnapping. Her bail is $1 million.

She and young Jasmine "Jazzie" Felix were found in Pomona.

The girl's parents had left the child in the care of her grandmother on Tuesday while they went to work, investigators said in a written statement. When the parents returned home, Jasmine and Arias weren't there.

About an hour later, Arias called the girl's parents, telling them she took the child "and was never going to bring her back," the news release said.

Investigators suspected that the grandmother may have traveled to Pomona to get bus fare to her home in Madera.

Arias does not have a car, so investigators thought she'd likely be using public transportation. She has been staying with her family in Highland since November.

A few hours after going public with details of the case, Highland detectives learned that Arias had been seen near Indian Hill Boulevard and Kingsley Avenue in Pomona.

About the same time, the child's parents distributed fliers in Pomona and left one flier at Samos Burgers, 701 S. Garey Ave.

When owner George Tsakanias spotted the flier, he realized that the woman and child had been at the restaurant earlier that day.

"Tsakanias began to drive the area ... and located them at an apartment complex along the 500 block of East Phillips Boulevard," according to the sheriff's statement. "Tsakanias lost sight of (them) and immediately called ... Pomona police."

Pomona officers found the grandmother and child walking along Phillips Boulevard near Garey Avenue, detained them, and called Highland detectives.

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